Hospitality industry embraces green ideas

The hospitality industry has embraced Shanghai's first regulation on domestic waste management as it steps up efforts to offer more environmentally friendly services.

Many hotels have replaced free disposable items with biodegradable alternatives, or given their guests incentives to use their own. Shanghai's new regulation, which takes effect on July 1, aims to reduce the amount of garbage produced at source, ensure separate transportation of different kinds of garbage, improve waste treatment facilities and promote social participation.

According to the regulation, hotels should not provide disposable slippers and shower caps if not requested by guests, while restaurants and food delivery businesses should not provide disposable chopsticks and forks.